Use offlineimap. It's slow, but I built this [1] to watch my Gmail mailbox and launch a sync whenever a new mail arrives so I don't have to wait and I don't hav

Use offlineimap. It's slow, but I built this [1] to watch my Gmail mailbox and launch a sync whenever a new mail arrives so I don't have to wait and I don't have to poll. After that you can use mutt with the maildir you have locally. Bonus: you get to backup your mails. I use sup (https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/ https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/) as a MUA to manage my mail, with the gpgpme gem [2] I can use gpg almost flawlessy (but I'm biased, I help maintain it :) [1] https://github.com/rakoo/idlewatch https://github.com/rakoo/idlewatch [2] https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/gpg https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/gpg